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J. KRODER.

CURTAIN POLE TIP.

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JOHN KRODER, OF NEV YORK, N. Y.

CURTAIN-POLE TIP.

:PlCFIGATIN forming rari; of Letters Patent No. 298,592, dated May 13, 1884.

Application tiled March Q1, 1834. (No model.)

To all whom it' may concern, .1

Beit known that I, Jol-IN KRODER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York, county and State of N ew York, have invented certain new and useful Improvement-s in Curtain-Pole Tips, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to tips or end pieces for curtain-poles, and has for its object the production of such ornamental iiXtures, so that certain parts may be changed to correspond to and be in unison with the pole to which they are applied; and it embraces the idea of supplying to the trade the tips or end pieces with all their parts detached, the same being secured together and forming a completed tip when applied to the curtain-pole, leaving the arrangement and combination of the detached parts to the discretion and judgment of the user.

To permit of the carrying out of this idea, the invention consists of two metal cap-pieces, and a central molding composed of one or more pieces of wood, the outer cap-piece being provided with a screw sufficiently long to pass entirely through the wooden molding and the other cap-piece and into the end of the curtain-pole, thereby holding all the parts together and securely attaching the completed tip to the pole. The retainingscrew may be provided with a knob and be detached from the outer cap-piece. The moldings are made of various kinds of wood or combinations of woods, from which can be selected pieces similar to the kind of wood the pole is made of, or in harmony therewith. These wooden moldings it on the central retaining-screw, and are so shaped as to be embraced by the adjacent edges of the metal cap-pieces, thus forming a perfect brace to hold the cap-pieces in place when the whole is fixed to the end of the curtain-pole. The adjacent edges of the metal cap-pieces are so shaped as to interlock, so that, if desired, the wooden moldings may be dispensed with, thus forming a tip of only two pieces and the retaining-screw, and entirely of metal.

Inthe accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure l represents in perspective the various parts of my improved pole-tip detached. Fig. 2is alongitudinal section of the parts combined together and secured to the end of a pole. Fig. 3 represents a pole-tip, partly in section, in which the central wooden molding is omitted, and Fig. 4

-shows a modification in construction.

. by means of the long screw d, which is secured to or forms a part of the end knob, e. This is the simplest form in which the pieces shown can be combined together to constitute a curtain-pole tip; but my invention contemplates the combination with such pieces of the wooden piece f. This piece f has a central hole, in which the screw d rits, and its outer edges are formed into amolding of any suitable design, and it is so shaped at its sides as to be embraced by the inner adjacent edges of the cap-pieces a and b. It may be made of one piece of wood, as shown at Fig. l, or be built up of three pieces of wood, as shown at Fig. 2, f being the central part of one kind of wood, and f j" outside pieces of another kind of wood; or the central part, f, may be made of metal or covered therewith, thus affording a great variety of ornamentations from which to choose in putting the parts together to constitute tips for curtain-poles, the parts being separated, as shown at Fig. l, when supplied tothe trade, and by the user combined together, as before described.

In general I make the screw d, provided with the knob c, detached; but it may be secured to the outer cap-piece, a, if desired.

It will be observed that by reason of the wooden moldingj', fitting on the screw d, and the adjacent edges of the cap-pieces a and b, embracing the said wooden molding, the parts are firmly held together bythe screw d when it is screwed in the end of the curtain-pole c, and a very rigid and strong tip is produced. The inner edges of the cap-pieces a b may t in grooves formed in the sides of the wooden molding f, as shown at Fig. 4.

Having now described the nature and ap- IOO detached central molding` composed of one or more pieces of wood, the whole secured to the end of a curtain-pole, and the tip completed by means of the retaining-screw, which is passed centrally through the other parts and screwed into the end of the pole, substantially as set forth.

2. In combination, two metal cap-pieces, a

central retaining-screw, and a wooden molding so formed as to t on the screw and be embraced by the adjacent edges of the cappeces constituting a curtain-pole tip by being held together by means of the screw when 2o it is screwed in the end of the curtainpole, substantially as hereinbefore set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, at NewYork, county and State of New York, this 19th day of March7 A. D. 1884.

JOHN KRODER.

Vitnesses:

ALFRED SHEDLooK, II. D. WILLIAMS. 

